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Domenico Ghirlandaio

1448 - 1494

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Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi (2 June 1448 – 11 January 1494), professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio (also spelt as Ghirlandajo), was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence. Ghirlandaio was part of the so-called "third generation" of the Florentine Renaissance, along with Verrocchio, the Pollaiolo brothers and Sandro Botticelli. Ghirlandaio led a large and efficient workshop that included his brothers Davide Ghirlandaio and Benedetto Ghirlandaio, his brother-in-law Bastiano Mainardi from San Gimignano, and later his son Ridolfo Ghirlandaio. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Domenico Ghirlandaio has received more than 560,671 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Domenico Ghirlandaio is the 60th most popular painter (up from 64th in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from Italy (up from 201st in 2019) and the 18th most popular Italian Painter.

Domenico Ghirlandaio is most famous for his frescoes in the Tornabuoni Chapel and the Sassetti Chapel in the Church of Santa Trinita.

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Among painters, Domenico Ghirlandaio ranks 60 out of 2,023. Before him are Caspar David Friedrich, Camille Pissarro, Giorgione, Artemisia Gentileschi, Jean-François Millet, and Egon Schiele. After him are Kazimir Malevich, Théodore Géricault, Alphonse Mucha, Giovanni Bellini, Francis Bacon, and Frans Hals.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1448, Domenico Ghirlandaio ranks 1. After him are Alfonso II of Naples, Philip, Elector Palatine, Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine, Miguel Corte-Real, and Bartolomeo della Gatta. Among people deceased in 1494, Domenico Ghirlandaio ranks 2. Before him is Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. After him are Hans Memling, Ferdinand I of Naples, Poliziano, Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Melozzo da Forlì, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Muhammad XIII of Granada, Yuriy Drohobych, Giosafat Barbaro, and Giovanni Santi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Domenico Ghirlandaio ranks 183 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Clement XII (1652), Catherine of Siena (1347), Pope Innocent X (1574), Pope Sixtus V (1520), Scipio Africanus (-235), and Enrico Caruso (1873). After him are Pope Julius III (1487), Pope Honorius III (1148), Pope Gregory XII (1335), Pope Paul IV (1476), Pope Felix I (300), and Pope Boniface IX (1350).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Domenico Ghirlandaio ranks 18. Before him are Andrea del Verrocchio (1435), Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526), Andrea Mantegna (1431), Fra Angelico (1400), Giorgione (1478), and Artemisia Gentileschi (1593). After him are Giovanni Bellini (1430), Piero della Francesca (1415), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696), Cimabue (1240), Canaletto (1697), and Pietro Perugino (1446).

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